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	“I was born 1x~ Dallas Cçunty, ArkansaB, it must have been ‘long ‘bout in ei~hty~fifty“fli33~O, ‘eaua I was 5ixteen ye~xa ciA whxi. I ccme here and ‘I been here sixty-three yaara.

9Dfl?ing the War, I was quite ~na].1. My ~nother brought me here after

the War ànd I went to school for a while, M~other had a large ramlly. So I

never ßot to go to school but three month8 at a time and only got one doUar

and twenty$ive cents a week wages when I was working0 My tather drové a

wagon and hoed cotton. Mother kept ho~xse. She had--.lemme see-~one, two,

three ‚ fou~r--e Ight of us, but the younge st brother was born hers ‚

	“My niother‘s name was Millie Stokes. My mother‘s n~xne before she was niarri ed was—~I don ‚ t know what • My father ‚ s naine was William St okes. My

father said he was born In Maryland. I inst Richard ~ieathers here and married him sixty-three years ago. I bad àix chlldrön, three girls and‘

three boys. Children make you smart and industrious-—make you think and ~:~ake you. get about,

	I‘ v~ heard talk of the pateroles ; they used to whip the slaves that v~as out without pa8ses, but none of them never bothered us. I don‘t remember anything myself‘, because I was too 8Dlall. I heard of the Ku K1u~x too ; they never bothered my people none • They scared the niggers at night. I never saw none of them. I can‘t remember how freedom cama. First I kno~ed, I was free.

	“PG ople in them day8 dIdU‘ t know as much as the young people do now.

~t they thought more • Youn~ people nowadays don‘ t think, Scme of them

will do pretty well, but some of them ain‘t goin‘ to do nothin‘. • They

are ~ittia‘ worse and worser, I don‘t know what is gain‘ to become of

them. They been dependin‘ on the white folks all along, but the white

11011(8 am‘ t sayin‘ much now. My people du‘ t seem to want nothin‘ .